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    Issues 51-100

    Issues 51-100

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  • Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai was among the first 19th- century thinkers to call for the establishment of a Jewish home in the land of Israel | Illustration by Ovadia Benishu

    The First Zionist Visionary – Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai

    Yitzhak Krausz

    At first glance, 19th-century rabbi Yehuda Alkalai’s writings seem like traditional Jewish interpretations of biblical prophecies, but closer scrutiny reveals a strikingly modern redemptive vision – which had yet to be dubbed Zionism

  • Bronze coinage from the Bar Kokhba Revolt | Kadman Numismatic Pavilion, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv–Jaffa

    Coins of Rebellion – Judean Rebels’ Coins

    Yinon Horesh

    Unlike other freedom fighters throughout history, the Judeans rebelling against Rome even minted their own coins. Why “waste” energy and resources on mere symbols of independence? What subversive messages did they convey?

  • Flora and her daughter Rachel, 1902 | Photo: Major Stanley Smith, Waldemar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine Archive, National Library of Israel

    Woman of Worth and Wisdom – Flora Sassoon

    Hezi Cohen

    Even today, most boardrooms remain dominated by men, but 130 years ago a Jewish woman shattered the glass ceiling to preside over one of India’s largest mercantile empires. A philanthropist and scholar to boot, Flora Sassoon was a force to

  • Births of a Nation – Jewish Birth Rate in Mandate Palestine

    Lilach Rosenberg-Fridman

    Thanks to its high birth rate, Israel is one of the West’s only growing societies. Under the British Mandate, however, the Zionist campaign for large Jewish families largely flopped. What factors outweighed the urgent demographic need for J

  • Dancing to Bar Yohai’s Tomb – Meron Pilgrimage

    Dotan Goren

    Over the centuries, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai’s grave on Mount Meron has drawn pilgrims in increasing numbers, peaking with both celebrations and controversy on the anniversary of his death. The pre-state procession of musicians and mystics fr

  • Flyleaf of the Frank Haggadah, 1857, showing a rebuilt Jerusalem

    The Unspoken Taboo – Next Year in Jerusalem

    Jonathan D. Sarna

    What prompted a century of American Jews to omit the phrase “Next year in Jerusalem” at the conclusion of their Seder? The aspirations and declarations replacing it speak volumes about American Jewish loyalties, priorities, and conflicts, a

    • Columns

  • A Day at the Museum | Bialik Square

    Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

    A nostalgic, European-style city square has been renovated once again, this time commemorating a century since Hayim Nahman Bialik’s arrival in Tel Aviv Bialik Square is one of Tel Aviv’s oldest public

  • Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

    Naomi Samuel

    Jews Mourning in ExileOil on canvas163 x 133 cmDusseldorf, 1832Wallraf-Richartz Museum,Cologne, Germany Eduard Bendemann1811-1889 RomanticismA reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, this late-18th-century movement in literature,

  • Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

    Naomi Samuel

    Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher-Brandeis1898-1944           Deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with a fifty-kilo weight limit, Friedl Dicker-Brande

  • Tale of a Trail | Heletz

    Tamar HaYardeni

    The dream of discovering a wealth of natural resources beneath the soil of the land of Israel is as old as the state itself. What actually happened when this dream briefly came true and hope burst from the ground of the Negev in a viscous,

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